Well, last month I almost bought an elite 360, but then I thought "All I need is the 120GB hard drive". I couldn't make up my mind, so yesterday my 360 made it up for me. My 360 Halo Edition that I bought on Halo 3 launch day red-ringed on me, and my 2 year warranty at Best Buy got me an Elite today. I didn't realize the ol' 20GB's were $399 until I looked at my receipt, so it was an even exchange for an Elite. Now to re-download the 300 or so DLC items

Congratulations! You probably already know this, but make sure you transfer your DRM licenses and use the marketplace to quickly queue up everything in your history you want to redownload.

Thanks pinata. I know 'of' the DRM transfer, but do I really need to do it? Won't re-downloading it be good enough? Also, here's the situation. I had two 360's. The one that died wasn't really played that much, we mainly watched movies on it (90/10%). The 2nd one (in our gameroom) had about 95% of my DLC on it. Now, I want to keep the new one in the living room and just swap-out the hard drives. If I put the new HD in the 2nd 360 (which has almost all of my DLC), do I still need to transfer DRM's? The 360 in our livingroom will be just fine with a 20GB hard drive, plus everything is already on the 20GB.

You're cool provided you are always logged in to Live without doing the DRM transfer. Otherwise you won't be able to access the content.

DRM is only necessary if the content is used with your profile being signed into XBL. If your account is always signed in, it won't matter (unless your internet is down).

Finally, a RROD brings joy.

^^ So true.

I think it's a rite of passage for all 360 owners to have to return a defective unit.

Has MS given any deadline for when they will stop replacing RROD units beyond the normal warranty?

< sarcastic asshole comment> I can't believe we haven't had a thread or six for this type of thing. This thread = Fail. < /sarcastic asshole comment>

So did you buy a new warranty with the new console?

Yeah, I had to. Definitely cheaper than buying a new console. I think this thread is a bit different than most RRoD threads, I was happy it died, especially since I almost bought a new controller and 120GB hard drive.

How hard is this to do? I've been wanting to get a new 360 but haven't because of having to transfer everything.

20GB's weren't $399...just the Halo Edition (extra $50 for the fancy paint job). Too bad you couldn't hold off for a couple weeks and pick up the RE5 Elite since they are Jaspers.

20GBs were $399 2 years ago when I bought my first one.

20GB were most certainly $399.

...that's what I paid for my first one. Wasn't the Halo Edition $50 more?

I would've waited for Resident Evil red 360.

I think the Halo ones came out at $399 when the white ones dropped to $349. My launch 360 died the day of H3's launch, so I believe that's how I ended up with the Halo edition one, it was an even exchange since the launch 360 was $399. Actually, my launch one never red-ringed, but it just wouldn't play any discs anymore...I kept getting the 'dirty disc' error.